New action to commit changes via commits API
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Description
The Commits API provides an endpoint to commit changes (POST /projects/:id/repository/commits).
This works fine. But if you, e.g., change only a small number of lines in a large file, then providing the whole file in the payload is not the best approach as the JSON object to commit the changes gets very big.
A better approach to submit small changes in large files would be to submit only the diff. Using git directly this would be something like this:
# change files locally
...
# create diff
git diff --output=changes.patch
# apply changes on remote side
git apply changes.patch
git commit -a -m "<commit message>"For the remote part I would prefer a REST Api solution.
Proposal
Add new action patch to POST /projects/:id/repository/commits.
The changes can be specified in standard git diff format using the content attribute of the endpoint.
Possible usecase
Patching files from a CI pipeline with some version-specific code.